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Two Questions concerning ships and bounty
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Effie Jamaycia
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-06-19 04:04:57 UTC
I'm relatively new to EVE but I have a couple questions.

First off, what are some of the better ships to use when hunting other players for bounty. I realize some people don't think it's a proper profession but it's more for the fun of it than the money.

From what I've gathered it seems that a fast ship with close range pulse weapons would be to ones advantage considering most other weapons lose accuracy when up close (correct me if I'm wrong).

Secondly, is there a place where you can view a player's profile and his/her current ship layout?

Thanks.
Gianath
Gallentian Legitimate Businessmen
#2 - 2012-06-19 04:30:11 UTC
Bounties are not a profession, it's pretty much a joke.

You need to either go after him with a gang, or fly a ship that can kill his ship in one alpha, then pop the pod with the second shot before concord or station/gate guns pop you.

When the bounty gets big enough (to outweigh clone and implant costs, anyway), all you need to do is eject from your ship and have an alt/corp mate pop you and pocket the bounty. There's really no other way to profit from it, no matter how many locator agents and suicide-ganky friends you are able to hire.
Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#3 - 2012-06-19 04:43:11 UTC
Gianath wrote:
Bounties are not a profession, it's pretty much a joke.



Much this.

1st all you need is and ibis, shoot a simple rosk with a civilian blaster and get conkorden a bunch of times

2nd use bounty system with an alt and put yourself some bounty

That it you're a bad boy !

Easy exploit/everyone does/easy/obvious/ridicously simple/need no brains/even a chicken can think of it:

Someone puts bounty on you, lets say 100mill. Pick an alt with Veltaor (because it's completely OP) and 2 civilian blaster+full lows dmg mods (for lols) fleet up to fafe, drop fleet, shoot toon with bounty on it:profit

Like the guy above said: it's pretty much a joke and having some yellow/red skull means absolutely nothing.

brb
Kuehnelt
Devoid Privateering
#4 - 2012-06-19 06:13:01 UTC
Effie Jamaycia wrote:
First off, what are some of the better ships to use when hunting other players for bounty.


I imagine a HIC or something that can have utility smartbombs. You need to kill his ship (straightforward) and then you need to kill the pod (hard). Or you'll need a good cloaky ship to stalk your target to the point where you can surprise him with a new anchored bubble: oh, he likes to warp directly to this gate? Oh, his missions take him into this cul-de-sac system?

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Secondly, is there a place where you can view a player's profile and his/her current ship layout?


No, but battleclinic keeps a convenient record of prior fits.